The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …

possible to analyse the innovation gradient of each region in Portugal. Our paper presents and systematically investigates …Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation …

possible to analyse the innovation gradient of each region in Portugal. Our paper presents and systematically investigates …Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation …

innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is … (leading to Voronoi mappings) in order to design a systematic typology of innovation clusters in the main regions in Portugal …. A striking result is the significant difference in innovation systems at regional level in Portugal. The paper is …

Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last decades. Public policies have been shaped … learned from these examples are rarely transferable elsewhere. The regional innovation systems in peripheral regions, and the … objective of the article is precisely to take Portugal as an example to enrich this analysis. The first part of this article …

. This article contributes to debate the role of universities in the dynamics of innovation systems. A framework to analyse … specific innovation systems is suggested, focusing particular attention on regional level. The idea is to characterise a … regional innovation system by endowments in territorial, relational, intangible and institutional resources. New functions of …

This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization … of innovation activities among firms, and in what ways regional policy initiatives can be supportive. The analysis draws … on data on innovation networks and activities in the life science, media, and food industries. The theoretical framework …